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Developers Digging Windows Phone; Microsoft Employees Still Love iPhones

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March 16th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I’m sure this dude is on the fast track now: apparently at a recent company meeting, a wiseass employee tried to take a picture of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer — with an iPhone. Uh-oh! The Wall Street Journal reported that Ballmer grabbed the device, threw it to the [...] more...

Creative Considerations for the iPad

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March 16th 2010
Author
Tom Moran

ADOTAS – There is no doubt that Apple once again moved the needle and generated a new level of hype around mobile devices. In fact, in the first hour after the iPad launch announcement on Jan. 27, Mashable reported an average of 3,000 tweets per minute about the soon-to-be-released device. Flurry [...] more...

Jumptap Offers Self Service Lane

Written on
March 12th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Possibly inspired by those neat-o self checkout lanes in grocery stores that let you bypass the clerk-dependent masses, Jumptap has added a self-service application for publishers of mobile websites and applications. Pubs and developers can easily integrate their goods and wares on Jumptap’s mobile ad network, opening the doors [...] more...

Got Funds? Todacell Scores a Cool Million

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March 11th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – After securing $1 million last summer, Todacell has gone and done it again, taking home another cool million from existing investor AfterDox. With this new investment, the company will open five new offices in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London and Bombay. Pretty ambitious for a company that came [...] more...

A Custom Postcard Thanks to Your Favorite Brand

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March 11th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Handwritten letters may have been trounced in the age of email, but postcards are still a booming market with nearly 2 billion sent a year. Hippopost blends a postcard service with social media to engage brands and consumers in a way that marries traditional advertising, modern technology and [...] more...

Display, but Nothing Else, Hops on YouTube Mobile Site

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March 11th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Google has officially opened the gate to display advertising on the  home, search and browsing pages of the YouTube mobile website, but other advertising channels on the online site remain fenced-off from mobile. Similar to YouTube’s homepage, advertisers buy all the inventory on the mobile site daily. As traffic [...] more...

Shocker: iPhone Developer License Is Really One-Sided

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March 11th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I love the term “draconion” — it has such a ring to it. Just saying it aloud sends a shiver down the spine. The word references Draco, the first legislator of ancient Athens (and possibly the world), who took the oral laws of the city and wrote them [...] more...

iPhone-aholics Anonymous — or Unanimous?

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March 10th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Ever since I read it as a boy, Ray Bradbury’s story 1953 “The Murderer” has haunted me. In the near future a psychologist visits a patient at an insane asylum who has given himself the moniker of “the Murderer” — he doesn’t slay humans, but any piece of [...] more...

Rubicon Partners With mOcean to Offer Mobile Platform

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March 9th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The Rubicon Project is taking it’s revenue optimization to the mobile world. Through a partnership with mobile ad platform mOcean Mobile, REVV for mobile (RFM) will give premium publishers a platform to match each mobile ad impression with the highest paying demand source. Integrated within the REVV for publishers [...] more...

Mobile Apps Go Native With Appcelerator’s Titanium Upgrade

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March 9th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I grew up in Washington, DC, and moved to New York City in my swingin’ 20s, trading one tourist hotspot for another. Years spent passing large, bumbling groups of visitors, all wearing the same neon color t-shirts as well as tacky hats and sunglasses (sometimes they even ride [...] more...



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